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The Defense Innovation Unit selected Motiv Space Systems in 2022 to prototype satellite-servicing hardware for the Modularity for Space Systems program.
The DIU contract supports the Sinequone project, which aims to deliver cost-effective, responsive access to xGEO through launch and orbital transfer services.
Firefly Aerospace signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit to conduct a trade study on Firefly’s capabilities to rapidly launch Elytra vehicles and support missions beyond geosynchronous orbit (xGEO).
The DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) contracted with Orbit Fab for the first in-space fuel sale in GEO and selected Orbit Fab’s RAFTI fueling port and GRIP for its RAPIDS Refueling and Fuel Depot initiative.
DIU awarded Firefly Aerospace a study contract that could lead to as many as two flight demonstration missions in cislunar space.
In response to the Sinequone solicitation in 2022, DIU received 112 solution briefs from 94 companies.
The DIU project with Firefly follows another DIU space logistics project announced on 2024-03-20.
The DIU contract with Firefly supports the Sinequone project that aims to deliver cost-effective, responsive access to xGEO through both launch and orbital transfer services.
The DIU study contract supports the Sinequone project, which aims to deliver cost-effective, responsive access to cislunar space through launch and orbital transfer services.
Under the DIU contract, after the initial study Firefly Aerospace would deliver three to six orbital vehicles for one or more launches to orbits in cislunar space with the goal of reducing delivery time for each subsequent mission.
On 2024-03-21 Firefly Aerospace signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit to conduct a trade study on Firefly’s capabilities to rapidly launch Elytra vehicles and support missions beyond Geosynchronous Orbit (xGEO).
The Defense Innovation Unit receives an increase of $842,000,000 in the fiscal year 2024 defense budget.
The Defense Innovation Unit was established in 2015 in Silicon Valley to serve as a bridge between the Department of Defense and the commercial technology sector.
The Defense Innovation Unit signed an agreement with Firefly Aerospace on 2024-03-21 to study the potential use of Firefly’s Elytra orbital vehicle for missions beyond geosynchronous Earth orbit.
DIU was established in 2015 and acts as a bridge between the Department of Defense and the commercial technology sector.
The Defense Innovation Unit is working with three companies to provide logistics services enabling low-cost, responsive access to GEO and other exotic orbits beyond LEO.
The Defense Innovation Unit partnered with the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command’s Assured Access to Space Mission Manifest Office to manifest the Dark-Sky-1 mission to fly on a National Security Space Launch.
The Defense Innovation Unit was established in 2015 to act as a bridge between the Department of Defense and the commercial technology sector.
The three DIU-funded projects were awarded to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and Spacebilt.
The Defense Innovation Unit funded three projects on 2024-03-20 to explore space infrastructure supporting military operations beyond low Earth orbit.